Resilience in the relationship between parent-child triangle and self-differentiation among junior and senior school students

Objective To explore mediational role of resilience in the relationship between parent-child triangle and selfdifferentiation among junior and high school students. Methods Totally 411 junior students and 422 senior students were selected to complete a questionnaire survey on parent-child triangulation, resilience and self-differentiation. Results Resilience played a partial mediating role in the relation between parent-child triangulation and self-differentiation, and the mediating effect was 23.0%; The mediation effect of resilience was moderated by grades. For junior students, parent-child triangle predicted resilience, but only among junior students(t = -4.61, P<0.01; t = -0.72, P>0.05); resilience had stronger prediction to self-differentiation among senior students (t = 16.37, P<0.01; t = 13.84, P<0.01; ). Conclusion Parent-child triangle can not only affect the self-differentiation directly, but also indirectly through the mediation of resilience, and this effect is moderated by grade.